Sources: Lakers teammates 'isolating' D'Angelo Russell after video surfaces

mademan · Post #301 » by **mademan** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:55 pm

aIvin adams wrote:
Guest202 wrote:
Masterfully wrote:You need new friends.

For contrast all of my friends have been married for 10-30 years and have NEVER cheated on their wives. Or maybe they have, but I dont know because they aren't stupid enough to tell me.

I only say that because young people may read your post and think that having a monogamous relationship is impossible. It happens all the time.

Don't be so sure. Maybe your friends just don't have the options to and/or maybe they don't do or talk about it around you because you seem like a snitch. Note: My pals are all late 20s early 30s, so they're still moderately handsome. I think cheating with random chicks tends to get a little more difficult as you age and become less attractive, travel less, etc.

FWIW im an incredibly handsome and charismatic 30 yo professional whose attractiveness is exceeded only by his humility

And I've been married six years.

And I've never-- oh **** yer right I did cheat on my wife once. Well, anyway, I was a fool for putting myself in that situation. She forgave me and I will never, ever do it again because I love her and don't want to hurt her.

Chicks still want my D tho IMO

Stop insisting that fidelity is a myth ITT

ehh, there arent a lot of young (20-30) people who can stay faithful when super attractive girls are literally throwing themselves at you. Especially when you go out with your teammates at a club and are drunk. Takes a lot of will power to say no a couple of times, would take a ridiculous amount of will power to turn it down for the 41 road games youre on and away from your wife/gf.

ReKon · Post #302 » by **ReKon** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:55 pm

BJGOAT3 wrote:DAR is %100 wrong in this, very very stupid move. However, if I'm the Lakers org. I would protect Russell till the end, in fact look to can Nick Young, Lou Williams and co. immediately for isolating him. Especially if they have any influence over Clarkson-Randle or Nance regarding this. I would make clear to young guys its D'Lo that they will be together with for a long time, and not the others.

By the way, anybody thinking that this is worse than what Parker did is delusional. Parker's was a class A scumbag move. Not saying that this isn't but Parker's would take the cake, its in John Terry class, a notch below the Ryan Giggs incident(apologies to non-soccer fans for the references, those are all I could think of).

Just one correction.What Giggs did is way waaaaaaaaaaaaay worse than what Terry did.Dude slept with his actual brother s wife(think he got her pregnant too and she got an abortion but i don t remember the details).The only thing that could be nearly as bad as what Giggs did is what Adam Johnson did recently.

As for the actual argument i don t know how this became a debate about cheating and crap like that.Both suck but only one between the do did something that doesn t make any sense.Why would you post something like that on social media and why would you even record it in the first place.

And btw for all of you who say that Russell will be traded or will not stick in the league just relax already.In 2 weeks the playoffs start and noone will even remember this whole thing.And even if they didn t something new would come up and we would forget it anyway.Case in point yesterday there was a topic about Kyrie s gf cheating on him and because of Russell noone gives a crap about that right now

I can t wait till we stop talking about TMZ related issues and just start talking basketball again

G35 · Post #303 » by **G35** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:56 pm

twozeroMM wrote:
King Bugs wrote:Nick Young is cheating on his fiancee, but D'Angelo is the bad guy.

This nonsense is totally backwards.

Not saying it's right at all, but they view it as a guy code

There is a code everywhere you go...girl code, guy code, bro's before ho's, chicks before dicks, one side isn't better than the other.

The only thing is if you break code, just be prepared for the consequences. Russell better get REALLY good at playing basketball over the summer or I don't see how he lasts in the locker room.....

yoyoboy · Post #304 » by **yoyoboy** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:58 pm

So because I don't condone cheating, I'm suddenly a female? **** off.

Both guys are in the wrong here. Young can cry and moan all he wants, but he brought this upon himself for cheating. If you can't stay faithful don't enter an adult relationship. Plain and simple. He had the option of keeping things casual, but he chose to get engaged. He's a moron.

And Russell sounds like an immature baby. What he did was just stupid as hell and it'll end up costing him.

Revived · Post #305 » by **Revived** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:58 pm

Did one of y'all do this? :lol:

LLJ · Post #306 » by **LLJ** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:59 pm

Russell is the bad guy because he's on a team and trust is important on a team. It doesn't matter if Young is cheating--that's on him individually, and has no effect on his teammates--but from a Lakers' perspective, Russell is a locker room cancer right now. I can't imagine any Lakers fan would be pleased with this kind of behaviour. Anyway, most people always felt he was a bit of a punk.

young_frogger · Post #307 » by **young_frogger** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:00 pm

People talking about how what Nick Young did was so awful, what about Kobe? I'm pretty sure a lot of the Laker fans who are defending Russell calling him the 'good guy' in all of this are the same people who have all but forgotten about Kobe's infidelity. Anyway you spin it, what Russell did was worse on every leve, and yeah, this scandal is really bad. I personally will never be able to root for him after this and I'm sure many other fans feel the same. This has permanently damaged his reputation and 'brand' and affected the Lakers' free agency prospects. Even several years from now when the hooplah has died down, this is the kind of thing that will not be forgotten by him or anybody else in the league. An atrocious, unbelievably stupid, and frankly, sickening thing to do.

There aren't many NBA players I can say that I actively dislike, but he has certainly become one of them and I personally hope he doesn't recover from this. There are plenty of decent young players who actually have character that I can root for.

Speedlot · Post #308 » by **Speedlot** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:03 pm

Non issue. So he acts like a little punk. Who gives a damn about nick young. Bye swaggy.

lambchop · Post #309 » by **lambchop** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:05 pm

dwade3 wrote:
JellosJigglin wrote:
Froob wrote:That's hard to believe. I got hacked is the oldest excuse in the book (okay it's not that old).

I used to say the same thing, until it happened to me last year. And I hadn't used my twitter account since 2008 when it was a new thing. If it could happen to a regular joe like me then why not a celebrity. I'm not defending what he did. It was stupid and never should've been recorded in the first place. But we still don't know how it was released. I just don't see what DLo had to gain by releasing it himself.

His phone could have been hacked, but I just don't get why he even had the video saved in his phone and not delete it. This whole thung is just weird and confusing.

I doubt his phone got hacked. Probably sent the video to some of the other girls and then it spread quickly

JellosJigglin · Post #310 » by **JellosJigglin** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:08 pm

young_frogger wrote:People talking about how what Nick Young did was so awful, what about Kobe? I'm pretty sure a lot of the Laker fans who are defending Russell calling him the 'good guy' in all of this are the same people who have all but forgotten about Kobe's infidelity. Anyway you spin it, what Russell did was worse on every leve, and yeah, this scandal is really bad. I personally will never be able to root for him after this and I'm sure many other fans feel the same. This has permanently damaged his reputation and 'brand' and affected the Lakers' free agency prospects. Even several years from now when the hooplah has died down, this is the kind of thing that will not be forgotten by him or anybody else in the league. An atrocious, unbelievably stupid, and frankly, sickening thing to do.

There aren't many NBA players I can say that I actively dislike, but he has certainly become one of them and I personally hope he doesn't recover from this. There are plenty of decent young players who actually have character that I can root for.

Oh man, a Celtic fan is going to stop rooting for a Laker. What are we going to do?!?!!? :lol:

I don't see many people here defending Russel. Besides, what Kobe did was behind closed doors, off the record, while under pressure. It wasn't even known until 6 months after the fact when the cop went to the DA to try to intimidate Kobe (it didn't work). Not the same as DLo himself sharing it with the entire interwebz.

BJGOAT3 · Post #311 » by **BJGOAT3** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:08 pm

ReKon wrote:
BJGOAT3 wrote:DAR is %100 wrong in this, very very stupid move. However, if I'm the Lakers org. I would protect Russell till the end, in fact look to can Nick Young, Lou Williams and co. immediately for isolating him. Especially if they have any influence over Clarkson-Randle or Nance regarding this. I would make clear to young guys its D'Lo that they will be together with for a long time, and not the others.

By the way, anybody thinking that this is worse than what Parker did is delusional. Parker's was a class A scumbag move. Not saying that this isn't but Parker's would take the cake, its in John Terry class, a notch below the Ryan Giggs incident(apologies to non-soccer fans for the references, those are all I could think of).

Just one correction.What Giggs did is way waaaaaaaaaaaaay worse than what Terry did.Dude slept with his actual brother s wife(think he got her pregnant too and she got an abortion but i don t remember the details).The only thing that could be nearly as bad as what Giggs did is what Adam Johnson did recently.

As for the actual argument i don t know how this became a debate about cheating and crap like that.Both suck but only one between the do did something that doesn t make any sense.Why would you post something like that on social media and why would you even record it in the first place.

And btw for all of you who say that Russell will be traded or will not stick in the league just relax already.In 2 weeks the playoffs start and noone will even remember this whole thing.And even if they didn t something new would come up and we would forget it anyway.Case in point yesterday there was a topic about Kyrie s gf cheating on him and because of Russell noone gives a crap about that right now

I can t wait till we stop talking about TMZ related issues and just start talking basketball again

Oh yeah, of course Giggs' is the champion of champions when it comes to douchebag moves. I said that what Parker did was in Terry-class which is a notch below Giggs, but I didn't put it well enough. Giggs incident is probably one of the worst cheating stories ever heard and its in its own tier. Absolutely disgusting.

In this case, there really shouldn't have been an incident, if D'Lo wasn't acting extremely stupid. It shows you how delusional he is if he thought this was going to be a prank or something. The other incidents I referred to, were similarly destructive actions however all were motivated by selfish impulse/personal satisfaction. D'Lo's on the other hand, is very pointless. I really don't want to defend what he did though as it is unacceptable.

G35 · Post #312 » by **G35** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:11 pm

yoyoboy wrote:
JMac1 wrote:
yoyoboy wrote:Screw cheaters. Young got what he deserved. Still weird and stupid of Russell to do something like this though. No team will ever trust him again.

Are you a female? Please say yes.

So because I don't condone cheating, I'm suddenly a female? **** off.

Both guys are in the wrong here. Young can cry and moan all he wants, but he brought this upon himself for cheating. If you can't stay faithful don't enter an adult relationship. Plain and simple. He had the option of keeping things casual, but he chose to get engaged. He's a moron.

And Russell sounds like an immature baby. What he did was just stupid as hell and it'll end up costing him.

People are taking the cheating part and focusing on that. The trust part is the main issue.

Nick Young could have said, "I cheated on my taxes" or "I don't like this race of people" or "I can't stand signing autographs before games or attending Laker volunteer events".

This was said in the privacy of his hotel room and speaking with a teammate, there is a huge implication of privacy and trust. Basically its getting into J. Edgar Hoover/big brother type thinking when you can't have freedom of speech in your own hotel room with a co-worker......

mademan · Post #313 » by **mademan** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:11 pm

Speedlot wrote:Non issue. So he acts like a little punk. Who gives a damn about nick young. Bye swaggy.

Every other potential teammate of Russell? Fidelity isnt exactly common in professional sports; what kind of player wants to go to a team where they potentially might get stabbed in the back from a teammate and suddenly be wrapped around in a scandal?

Guest202 · Post #314 » by **Guest202** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:12 pm

Nobody is going to freeze him out of games or not be his friend or fight him—he's a rich, young, potential superstar. Nobody is going to risk harming their career (and millions of dollars) to "have Nick's back." End of the day nobody cares about Nick and his gf maybe breaking up. And LA is the fakest city in the world, limitless amount of sycophants that will do anything to get in good with a young superstar like Russell. The story will have no durability. In a week everyone will have forgotten—probably even Nick.

Kylo · Post #315 » by **Kylo** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:14 pm

I'm on the fence in this situation. Can't stand a snitch/two faced traitor, but then again if I was Iggy, I'd be happy that he filmed that because I found out and it exposed my partner as a cheating scumbag. It depends on which side of the situation you are on.

Guest202 · Post #316 » by **Guest202** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:15 pm

Anyone else think this could have even been a publicity stunt for her new album? I don't follow her work, but I wouldn't be surprised in she has a summer tour or a new single coming out soon. Day and age of viral crap, nothing would surprise me...

Renegade_H · Post #317 » by **Renegade_H** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:17 pm

Sixers fans sitting back like.... uh huh. Feel what we had to go through.

PKABOOICU · Post #318 » by **PKABOOICU** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:18 pm

dho4ever wrote:Pretty sure the sixers would still want to trade for him.

pretty sure the lakers still wouldn't want to trade him away

JellosJigglin · Post #319 » by **JellosJigglin** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:24 pm

mademan wrote:
Speedlot wrote:Non issue. So he acts like a little punk. Who gives a damn about nick young. Bye swaggy.

Every other potential teammate of Russell? Fidelity isnt exactly common in professional sports; what kind of player wants to go to a team where they potentially might get stabbed in the back from a teammate and suddenly be wrapped around in a scandal?

From what I can tell, I think Swaggy is well liked in the locker room. He's in the coach's doghouse but I haven't heard anyone having any issues with him since he joined the Lakers. Anyway, I'm over this story for today. Peace yall.

matt6715 · Post #320 » by **matt6715** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:24 pm

G35 wrote:
yoyoboy wrote:
JMac1 wrote:

Are you a female? Please say yes.

So because I don't condone cheating, I'm suddenly a female? **** off.

Both guys are in the wrong here. Young can cry and moan all he wants, but he brought this upon himself for cheating. If you can't stay faithful don't enter an adult relationship. Plain and simple. He had the option of keeping things casual, but he chose to get engaged. He's a moron.

And Russell sounds like an immature baby. What he did was just stupid as hell and it'll end up costing him.

People are taking the cheating part and focusing on that. The trust part is the main issue.

Nick Young could have said, "I cheated on my taxes" or "I don't like this race of people" or "I can't stand signing autographs before games or attending Laker volunteer events".

This was said in the privacy of his hotel room and speaking with a teammate, there is a huge implication of privacy and trust. Basically its getting into J. Edgar Hoover/big brother type thinking when you can't have freedom of speech in your own hotel room with a co-worker......

So honestly how do you/did you feel about the Donald Sterling thing?